Why only poor people?

While talking about modern and Digital India, the real facts which is 90% of workforce are working in unorganized sector at very low cost.Most of the unorganized  workers are daily wagers with no commitment by the employers to provide work on a continued basis and even those with monthly salaries have no job security or agreements. A sizable chunk of this workforce constitutes the migrant workers who go to other states in search of livelihoods. All the major cities of India have hundreds of thousands of migrant laborers engaged in all kinds of activities from construction work to plying cycle rickshaws. Some are able to pursued while some others live on the pavement tenements, slums and even on roads sides and under bridges with poor livelihoods.

It is preposterous to imagine that a problem of such immense proportions was not anticipated by the government of India while imposing the Lockdown from 24th March, 2020. If fact, it is perhaps due to the 'immense proportion' statistics that the government considered it practically or logistically impossible to manage. They also might have thought that making elaborate preparations to tackle the issue could very well defeat the purpose of lockdown or delay it ominously. Besides it, Government is focusing over the quarantine and save lives. They have naver think about what problems are faced by migrants.the most desired 'stay home' mission got derailed immediately, because the moment lockdown was imposed all the employers dismissed the workers without even paying due wages or salaries, and asked them to leave. In short time, many migrants lost their works or jobs. They are unable to pay household expenses and food expenses.

Of course, the concerned state governments, NGOs, religious institutions and others jumped into the humanitarian fray and claimed or even bragged about giving shelter and food to all with the slogan 'no one will go hungry'. However, as we mentioned earlier, achieving a mammoth job such as this, involving millions, was practically or logically impossible. The migrant workers protested in large numbers complaining of 'no work-no shelter-no food-no money' almost in all the cities; they thought they would surely die of hunger if not by COVID infection and wanted to go home at any cost. The government did boast of controlling the spread of the virus effectively,
and slowly brought in the issue of 'livelihood' in the later versions of the lockdown; however, they still did not do anything to reduce the sufferings of the floating distressed millions. And the migrant workers started walking hundreds of miles home-some dying on the way of exhaustion while some others getting mowed down by cars, trucks and goods trains; some spends money for transport to recover their long journey and some borrowed money for this, with some of them still not spared by tragic accidents.

After a long time, Government take decision to run trains and buses to different states. But no social distancing is followed and still migrants are travelling through roads. At the moment, scores of such helpless humans are getting killed in accidents daily. Shivers run down your spine when you imagine the inhuman scenario; hundreds of workers-men, women and children-carrying head-loads of luggage walking on the highways in scorching heat with no or negligible amount of food and water. To take rest ,the sleep on foot paths at night and resume next morning. And the parallel scenario: other vehicles-SUVs, media vans, goods carriers and the like-kept on passing them; media interviewing them, police checkpoints and inter-state border authorities monitoring or allowing them; noone is here to help or atleast tried to help them

Yes, you are asked to stay home and stay safe, and some of us somehow can afford it. Some lucky migrants reached out to their home.But many of them are killed while traveling from few kilometres away from their homes.This hurts most.However, in India money is always power: power to influence or lobby or to pressurized.